Mason was gold against his former team in a 0-0 tie last week, where StL won in the shootout over Nashville. The Preds had a 4 on 3 PP in OT but could not convert. (I still don't like the extra point going to a team that could not score in 65 minutes, though....)

Q. This is going back a bit, but when Semin shot his mouth off at you, you traveled the high road and didn’t shoot back. I’m curious, why not? SIDNEY CROSBY: Because I don’t feel like I really had to. I mean, I don’t think I really have to defend myself with words. I play the game and play the way I feel I have to, the way I feel is the right way. If that’s not up to someone’s standards, that’s fine. If they feel like they have to have their opinion heard, that’s fine, too. But, you know, that’s not really the way I go about it.

Q. This is going back a bit, but when Semin shot his mouth off at you, you traveled the high road and didn’t shoot back. I’m curious, why not? SIDNEY CROSBY: Because I don’t feel like I really had to. I mean, I don’t think I really have to defend myself with words. I play the game and play the way I feel I have to, the way I feel is the right way. If that’s not up to someone’s standards, that’s fine. If they feel like they have to have their opinion heard, that’s fine, too. But, you know, that’s not really the way I go about it.

Translation: A gigantic f you to Mr. Semin.

The way the whole month panned out after that just kills me. Semin shoots off his mouth, Crosby just shrugs and says "Well, that's okay, eh!" and goes on a scoring tear -- meanwhile Semin gets himself injured on top of it. Karma.

And yeah, it's not like Crosby has to say anything. He can just point to his trophy case.